But on Tuesday, many of the people who already live and work there called the plan a "land grab" that excluded them and hinged on an impractical vision of the area's future.
The commercial farm has generated opposition from smaller-scale urban farmers who have branded his plan a land grab.
Greenpeace was planning a landing on Rockall, claiming it as a micro-nation, renaming it Waveland in a stunt to resist the companies which were, even then, circling the seas around it in search of oil.
General Howe had originally planned a landing for September 13, recalling the date of James Wolfe's key landing before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.
The British Cabinet, in response to Churchill, authorized at least the preparation of a plan for a landing at Narvik; and in mid-December 1939 a Norwegian politician, Vidkun Quisling, leader of a pro-Nazi party, was introduced to Hitler.
What's more, after looping around Mount McKinley, our flight plan included a landing on a glacier, and heavy fog the last few days had left our pilot, Doug Hayden, uncertain about whether that would be possible.
Since XM, which began operating nationally in November, transmits by direct satellite feed, the local broadcasters suspected that XM was planning a land-based radio setup so that it could carry local programming and eventually lure longtime listeners of smaller radio stations.
The framework is part of the province's Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP), a land use plan hotly contested by First Nations.
In early July Kinkaid was briefed by Nimitz about plans for a landing in the Solomon Islands, codenamed Operation Watchtower.
Planning for a landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula began in early April; while this proceeded, on 15 April the battalion was issued its distinctive blue and purple unit colour patch.
